gartner analysis oracle eam to market,” says the Gartner Group report. This is the first part of the two-part series An ERP for Services Vendor Poised to Overtake the Market . In part two, Agresso Field Force is examined in greater detail. TEC’s Enterprise Resource Planning for Services Evaluation Center. About the Authors Predrag (PJ) Jakovljevic is TEC's principal analyst, with a focus on the enterprise applications market. He has nearly twenty years of industrial experience within the discrete manufacturing sector, including
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gartner analysis oracle eam One item of evidence: Gartner has stated that the growth of the MWFM software market is hampered by the lack of companies focusing on this area. As for the mid to high end of the market, the bar is being set higher every year. Over the past five years we have seen consistent increase in the sophistication that clients ask for in their requests for proposals (RFPs)—e.g., real-time optimization that integrates data from hand-held devices, global positioning system (GPS), and other sources, or, for
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gartner analysis oracle eam Thus, I concur with Gartner ’s assertions that, post-acquisition, there are the following possible scenarios for the ILOG SCM applications: Moving them under the IBM SCM consulting group, though as offerings with premium services wrapped around them that will likely cost more and will receive less focus than when they belonged to ILOG; Either limiting future product development or perhaps leaving the SCM business as independent, with the research & development (R&D) investment commensurate with the
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gartner analysis oracle eam when AMR Research (a Gartner company) introduced service lifecycle management (SLM) to cover applications that aim to achieve this vast after-sale service functionality. In TEC ’s 2003 article “Service Lifecycle Management – Tapping into the Value of the Product Aftermarket,” SLM is defined as a business initiative focused on servicing a company’s products, and the customers that bought them, after the product has been sold. Simply put, SLM focuses on making more money from the product
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Oracle Extends Oracle EBS with EndecaOracle paid a hefty price for Endeca Technologies in late 2011, but in addition to the product’s standalone sales, the up- and cross-sales opportunities in

gartner analysis oracle eam Extends Oracle EBS with Endeca Oracle paid a hefty price for Endeca Technologies in late 2011, but in addition to the product’s standalone sales, the up- and cross-sales opportunities in Oracle’s install base that can still come from Endeca’s big data capabilities seem immense. Thus far, Oracle’s retail and customer service solutions have benefited from Endeca’s information discovery capabilities . Most recently, to help organizations make better operational decisions, improve process
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gartner analysis oracle eam Traffic Analysis! What Next - ASP Odometers? Event Summary WebTrends Corporation (NASDAQ: WEBT) is creating a business unit to provide web log analysis on an ASP basis. The new unit will offer its services through a platform called WebTrends Live. A user embeds a small piece of JavaScript code, provided by WebTrends, on every page to be tracked. When a surfer loads such a page the JavaScript sends data back to a WebTrends server farm. Traffic analysis information that includes the page view is
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In the News: Gartner LawsuitGartner seems to be in the news a lot lately. First, they announced they will acquire AMR and now we find out that a vendor is suing them for not being included

gartner analysis oracle eam the News: Gartner Lawsuit Gartner seems to be in the news a lot lately. First, they announced they will acquire AMR and now we find out that a vendor is suing them for not being included in the Magic Quadrant. I wasn’t surprised to find out that the name of the website where the news was published is techdirt . Another interesting post on the same website caught my attention: five years ago, a woman sued a telecom company because a driver talking on his cell phone caused an accident. The lawsuit was
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